Schooling Alone

The Costs of Privatizing Public Education

Curtis J. Cardine (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

210 Seiten

2019
Rowman & Littlefield (Verlag)
978-1-4758-5001-7 (ISBN)

Artikel merken

Schooling Alone is a look at the history of public education and the current state of the efforts to privatize our public schools. This work looks at who is really choosing and what we, as members of a democratic republic, are losing as privatization of our publicly funded institutions moves forward. There is a difference between a capitalist economic theory and the values of a democratic republic. This work asks the reader to consider what our values regarding public education should be.

Curtis J. Cardine has served as a teacher, principal, corporate officer, and superintendent in New Hampshire public schools and Arizona charter schools. He is currently a research fellow for the Grand Canyon Institute, author and a nationally recognized expert on charter and public school finances and governance.

Preface

Chapter 1: Chartering Schools

Chapter 2: An Entitlement Mentality

Students as Business Assets

Chapter 3: Something Happened

Selling the Charter School Concept

Chapter 4: De-professionalizing American Public Education

Repealing Labor Laws

Take Care of Business

Chapter 5: What about the Sermon on the Mount?

Chapter 6: The Good Old Days

Chapter 7: Public or Private

Chapter 8: A Contracted Service

Chapter 9: “All Politics is Local”

Chapter 10: Deregulating a Public Good

Chapter 11: The Myth of Self-Correcting Free Markets

Chapter 12: Financial “Tells”

Comparing Market Sectors’ Debt

Chapter 13: Espoused Theories vs Theories in Use

Consumer Choice without Consumer Responsibility for that Choice

Chapter 14: Retirement Heist

Chapter 15: Investing in the General Welfare

Privatization Creep

Chapter 16: Market Meltdown

The Issue with Long Term Leases with a Related Party

Chapter 17: Controlling the Nation’s Educational Agenda

Chapter 18: The Economics of School Choice

Chapter 19: False Analogies

Chapter 20: Capitalism and Democracy

An Economic versus a Political Theory of Action

Historical Context

Personal Financial Responsibility is an American Value

The “Greatest Generation” got it Right

Scientific Management

Chapter 21: A Corporate Culture

A Financial House of Cards

Real Estate Acquisition Companies

Exacerbating the Debt Problem

Long Term Leasing Commitments with Related Parties

Underwater Real Estate Holdings

Overleveraged Long Term Debt and Commitments

Chapter 22: Is this Any Way to Run a Business?

Double Standards for Fiscal Accountability

There are No Fail Safes Built into the Model

Defining Unsustainable Losses in a Growing “Free Market”

Theoretical Safeguard

Threatened Educational Capital Sources

Backpacks full of Debt guaranteed by Students’ Backpacks full of Cash

Chapter 23: Lost Political Capital

Chapter 24: The Role of the Federal Government in Public Education

Precedents for Federal Involvement in Education

Origins of the Federal, State, and Local Control Debates

Chapter 25: The Goals of an American Public Education

Communities Matter

Celebrate all of our Successes

Chapter 26: Cashing In - Greed is “Good”

The Profit Motive: A Case in Point

The Theory of the Firm

New Rules

Chapter 27: An Educational Vision versus an Economic Theory of Action

Chapter 28: Philosophical Dissonance

The Fight for Equalized Opportunity Funding

Chapter 29: Enough Already

Erscheinungsdatum	11.10.2019
Zusatzinfo	17 b/w illustrations;10 tables
Sprache	englisch
Maße	159 x 232 mm
Gewicht	494 g
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► Arbeits- / Sozialrecht ► Sozialrecht
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
ISBN-10	1-4758-5001-8 / 1475850018
ISBN-13	978-1-4758-5001-7 / 9781475850017
Zustand	Neuware